The people, news and ideas that shape NC State University

What a Deal!

By Dave Pond

Families still struggling through the economic recession received some good news this month. Both the Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report ranked NC State as one of the best values in higher education.

Each year, Princeton Review
staffers spend countless hours poring over survey results from students
and faculty at more than 2,500 North American colleges and
universities. They found that NC State offers its
students the sixth-best value of any public university located in the
United States or Canada. U.S. News ranked NC State as the third-best value of any public university in the country.

NC State offers students one of the best values in higher education, according to the Princeton
Review and U.S. News.

“I think students recognize that NC
State offers the kind of hands-on learning opportunities and relevant
experience that will enable them to be valuable contributors to society
upon their graduation,” NC State chancellor James Woodward said. “In a
time of economic uncertainty and technological evolution, NC State
remains uniquely positioned to produce future leaders with the
knowledge and the skills to help solve the world's problems.

“It's
not surprising students would seek out the opportunities available to
them at NC State in hopes of reaching their personal, educational and
career goals.”

In its profile on NC State, the Review praises the
university not only for the academic quality of its student applicants,
but their extracurricular activities and altruistic endeavors as well.

No
other North Carolina-based institution – public or private – made the
Review’s “Top 10” list, featured in the 2010 edition of the Review’s
popular guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges.

In addition to
being one of the nation’s best values, NC State also received high
scores based on admissions selectivity as well as the university’s
“green rating,” a measure of the university’s commitment to
environmentally related policies, practices and education.

“It's
always nice for NC State to earn this kind of recognition,” Woodward
said. “The true measure of a university is its people, and I truly
believe that our faculty, students, staff and alumni are among the
nation's best.”

The Princeton Review is a New York City-based
education services company known for its annual rankings based on
surveys conducted of higher education institutions and of students
attending the schools, in addition to its test-prep courses, college
and graduate school admission services, books, and education programs. U.S. News, a news magzine published in Washington, D.C., has released its annual rankings of colleges and universities since 1985.

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